lightless

Example Sentences

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They can go long periods of time without eating, can live underground in lightless caves and, most importantly, they spin silk.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

Much of the deep ocean is vacant, with extremely cold, lightless regions making it difficult for life as we know it to survive.

From Salon • May 21, 2025

The incident left her concussed, needing to stay in a lightless room for five days and only worsened the chronic migraines she has battled as an adult.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 7, 2024

There are writers at this very newspaper, all upstanding individuals, who would have you believe a mythologized weather pattern of doom is about to plunge our mountain-nestled utopia into an epoch of lightless despair.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 20, 2023

I almost liked how cramped and lightless it was, so unlike our windy, too bright apartment.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee